PUBLIC DOMAIN AUTHOR

William Shakespeare

Plays and poems that still shape modern ideas of power, desire, ambition, comedy and tragedy.

LIVED: 1564–1616
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English
CATALOG: 43 works mapped

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Tragedies

Hamlet
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Macbeth
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Othello
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King Lear
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Romeo and Juliet
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Julius Caesar
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Coriolanus
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Titus Andronicus
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Timon of Athens
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Troilus and Cressida
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Comedies

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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As You Like It
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Twelfth Night
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Much Ado About Nothing
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The Merchant of Venice
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The Tempest
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The Comedy of Errors
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Measure for Measure
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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All’s Well That Ends Well
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Histories

King John
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Richard II
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Henry IV, Part 1
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Henry IV, Part 2
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Henry V
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Henry VI, Part 1
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Henry VI, Part 2
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Henry VI, Part 3
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Richard III
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Henry VIII
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Late plays and poetry

Cymbeline
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Pericles
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The Winter’s Tale
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
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Sonnets
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Venus and Adonis
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The Rape of Lucrece
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A Lover’s Complaint
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The Passionate Pilgrim
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